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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 71

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The machine reads it as

  1. Bodtes, exceptine that V
  2. E
  3. ous a
  4. fractmore thanotbers of this same densty
  5. sulphat cous oddies re-
  6. are verus.
  7. eartu proportionat to ihe densities of the same
  8. L et AB represent the retractins plane TuxFaCC OF any
  9. Gody, and Lea sus ccense ters nglels uxon the
  10. Body in C, 50 that che Anele AC I may be intinitely
  11. licele, and let C. R bethe retracted ray. From a given
  12. point B perpendicular to the retractins surtace crect
  13. BR mectinq with the retracted rar C R in R, and it
  14. C. R revresent the motion of the retracted rar, and this
  15. motion be distinguisted into trro motions C. B and BR,
  16. Wrhereot C B is a parallet to the retracting plane, and
  17. BR perpendicular to it: C. B Mall reprelent the motion
  18. OF the incident rar, and BR the motion generated by
  19. the retraction, a5 Opticians have ot late explained.
  20. Nou il any body or thins in morins throueh any
  21. pace oF a siving breadth terminated on both sides by
  22. tiro parallet plains, be urged formard in all parts ot
  23. that space by forces tendins directly Formards torrards
  24. the last plain, and betore its incidence on the Ars
  25. plane, had no motion Forards it, or but an infinicly
  26. litele one; and it the Forces in aII parts ofthat space,
  27. betireen the planes be at equal distances trom the planes
  28. equal to one another, but at several dictances bebisger
  29. Or lels in any siven proxortion, the motion generated
  30. Oy the forces in therhole passage oE the body or chins
  31. chrous

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 71. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0247?run=74